Immigration and Customs Enforcement
How a Minnesota State ‘Truth Council’ Has Exposed the Harms of Operation Metro Surge
Last December, thousands of agents descended on the Minneapolis metro area in a pair of federal immigration enforcement operations. What followed was chaos: federal officers arrested thousands of immigrants (some here lawfully), violently clashed with protestors, deployed tear gas in residential communities, and shot and killed two U.S. citizens,… Read More
Renée Good’s Family Files Lawsuits Challenging Federal Immunity as ICE Shootings Continue
The increasingly violent reality of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda came into sharp focus again last week when plainclothes ICE officers opened fire on a car in New York City within seconds of surrounding the vehicle, wounding 28-year-old Oscar Belgal while his terrified 5-year-old son sat in the… Read More
Renée Good’s Family Files Lawsuits Challenging Federal Immunity as ICE Shootings Continue
The increasingly violent reality of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda came into sharp focus again last week when plainclothes ICE officers opened fire on a car in New York City within seconds of surrounding the vehicle, wounding 28-year-old Oscar Belgal while his terrified 5-year-old son sat in the… Read More
ICE Begins Electronically ‘Disappearing’ People in Custody: What You Need to Know
When a person is arrested and detained by the U.S. government, it should be possible to find out where that person is being held. For generations, that was true for people held in immigration detention centers — until last week, when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rolled out… Read More
What State Lawmakers Can Do to Protect Immigrants: Privacy, Public Safety, and Detention Reform
Written by Alimatou Sarr, State & Local and Policy Intern From Maryland to Utah, state legislators have an important role to play in shaping how local immigrant communities are impacted by federal immigration policies. Many state leaders have met emerging issues head on to… Read More
How We Fix Our Immigration Crisis
This month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers killed another unarmed individual. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three U.S. citizen children, lived in the United States for 35 years and had no criminal convictions. He was driving to a construction job site with three co-workers to build homes… Read More
America Needs a New Immigration Agency for People Like Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Your immigration status shouldn’t cost you your life. For Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, it didn’t matter that he was the father of three U.S. citizens, a longtime Houston resident, a decades-long construction worker, or that he wanted to follow the rules and posed no safety threat. Read More
Inhumane Detention Conditions Aren’t Uncommon, They’re Part of the Problem
Written by Alimatou Sarr, State & Local and Policy Intern Recent hunger and labor strikes by hundreds of detained noncitizens at the privately-operated Delaney Hall immigration detention center generated widespread scrutiny and protests against allegations of abuse and mistreatment. Among their complaints, detained noncitizens alleged… Read More
States Advance ICE Masking Bans, Data Protections, and Immigration Enforcement Guardrails in 2026
Written by: Julian Montes-Sharp. State and Local Initiatives Intern Midway through the year, with over 30 state legislatures adjourned, emerging trends show how some states are taking up policies to protect immigrant communities. Having seen nearly 18 months of the second Trump administration’s immigration agenda, many state… Read More
ICE Doesn’t Want the Public to See What Happens in Its Detention Centers
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) often uses secrecy to conceal its own shortcomings. The latest example of the agency’s elusive behavior came this week, as ICE restricted lawmakers’ access to Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey. ICE turned away the New Jersey governor and… Read More
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